Colour Me Tolerable

[undyingking]

I have no sense at all for colours that go together (as a few of you have kindly reminded me in the past...), so I'm hoping some of the less taste-challenged among you may be able to help me with a colour choice.

We're been redecorating our library room, a small squarish attic room with a dormer window facing NNW. The walls are Pugin Red, the glosswork and ceiling are white. The curtain material is a red, gold and beige vertical stripe thing. The idea was to achieve a costy womb-like atmosphere -- of course, the walls will mostly be covered with books so they're of all sorts of colours.

My question is, what sort of carpet should I go for? My immediate thought of a supporting colour(s) which will help brighten up the room a bit was gold -- but that sounds a bit nightmarish for a carpet. T suggested oatmeal, which I guess is the universal-recipient of carpet colours, but I'd like something more interesting than that if poss.

Any thoughts?

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[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I've used the Kuler app linked by zandev above to generate those last two. Type "bookcase" into the search box.

The colours are as follows:

Swatch 1: Pugin Red (roughly)
Swatch 2: Potential carpet
Swatch 3: Guesstimated colour of bookcases
Swatch 4: Guesstimated colour of gold bits in curtains
Swatch 5: Guesstimated colour of red bits in curtains

Didn't bother adding the white, 'cos it's unlikely to clash.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Aha, excellent!

I've tweaked it to reflect the actual colours of the walls and curtains, and my preferred bookcase colour -- see 'Bookcases by Mo'. To my untutored eye, your potential carpet still fits in pretty well...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Yup, that works for me too.